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• Have We Learned from EB-5?

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Past Issues

• 3/10/2025 - Which State Agencies Implement Our Audit Recommendations?

• 2/27/2025 - Audits Show Room for Improvement in Health Care Program and Medicaid Fraud Prevention

• 1/17/2025 - 2024 Year in Review

• 10/2/2024 - State Economic Development Grant Programs Need Stronger Taxpayer Protections

• 7/11/2024 - Improving Vermont's Readiness for Natural Hazards

• 7/5/2024 - Rising health care costs, rising taxes: We are not powerless.

• 3/29/2024 - State Oversight of Jay Peak EB-5 Projects: A Tale of Misplaced Trust, Unfortunate Decision-making, Lengthy Delays, and Missed Opportunities

• 1/26/2024 - Burlington TIF and the AG Lawsuit

• 1/5/2024 - Democracy Requires Accountability

• 12/19/2023 - 2023 Year in Review

• 12/6/2023 - Education Property Tax: Cut Healthcare Bills, Not Classroom Instruction

• 8/25/2023 - Dam Safety Revisited

• 6/28/2023 - Auditor's  Report Identifying Risks to Vermont’s Universal Broadband Efforts

• 5/30/2023 - Auditor Hoffer Reviews Management of State's Information Technology Projects

• 4/3/2023 - Efforts to Protect Long-Term Care Residents: Vermont Can Do Better

• 3/20/2023 - Auditor Doug Hoffer Releases Audit of VTrans Cost and Schedule Performance on Paving Projects

• 12/30/2022 - 2022 Year in Review

• 10/27/2022 - More to the Story: Wages in Vermont

• 10/11/2022 - “Incentives” to Large Businesses: Who looks out for the taxpayer?

• 9/12/2022 - Vermont Criminal Justice Council Did Not Confirm That Law Enforcement Officers Met Training Requirements

• 7/29/2022 - Homeless in Vermont: Behind the Numbers

• 7/06/2022 - Vermont Supreme Court Deals Serious Blow to Government Transparency and Accountability

• 5/18/2022 - Bad Data Should Not Drive Policy

• 3/23/2022 - Auditor Hoffer Finds Problems with Vermont’s COVID Health Care Provider Grants

• 2/15/2022 - State Auditor Hoffer Evaluates Vermont Efforts to Prevent Dam Failures

• 1/25/2022 - Auditor Doug Hoffer Asks If Vermont’s Performance Reporting is “Measuring Up”

• 11/12/2021 - Auditor Hoffer Identifies as Much as $16.3M in Potential Savings in State Employee Health Plan

• 10/06/2021 - Auditor Hoffer Releases Report Evaluating Department of Labor Job Training Programs

• 09/24/2021 - Auditor Hoffer Finds Problems with Agency of Commerce’s Management of COVID Business Grants
   
• 08/26/2021 - New Hospital Price Tools Allow you to Pay Best Price for Quality Medical Care

• 06/23/2021 - Auditor Releases Report on State Spending on OneCare and All-Payer Financial Performance

• 05/13/2021 - Auditor Releases Report on State Spending on Dairy

• 04/21/2021 - News From the Vermont State Auditor